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**CHAPTER 18: THE SCARF**
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I Transmigrated Into a Novel And Divorced The Billionaire CHAPTER 39: TWO ROADS TO PORT HAVEN**
**Adrian sat very still in the dark study.*She was your father's secretary. Until the day your mother had her fired.*"When?" he asked. His own voice sounded strange to him. Far away. "When was she fired?"He heard Dean turn a page."Thirty-four years ago, sir. In the spring.""And Julian Thorne was born...""In the winter. The same year."Adrian did not say anything.He sat in his chair with the phone against his ear and the blue scarf in his lap, and he did the math. He did it slowly. Then he did it again. And a third time, the way Celeste used to check her numbers, because he did not like the answer and wanted it to be different.It was not different."Sir?" Dean said carefully. "Do you want me to keep looking?"Adrian looked out of the window. The sky over the garden was turning from black to dark gray. Somewhere a bird started to sing."No," he said. "Not yet. Thank you, Dean. Go home. Get some sleep."He ended the call.He sat there for a long time. Then he folded the scarf ca
I Transmigrated Into a Novel And Divorced The Billionaire *CHAPTER 38: THE THINGS HE DIDN'T SAY**
*Julian did not answer right away.He stood in the middle of the small room with the rain running down the windows behind him. His hand was still half out, reaching for a phone that was already dead. Slowly, he let it drop to his side.Wren waited.The clock on the little kitchen wall ticked. A car went past on the wet street nine floors below. Somewhere in the building, a door closed."Yes," Julian said at last. "There are things I haven't told you."Wren felt something cold settle in her stomach."Sit down," she said. "And tell me."He didn't sit. He walked to the window instead and looked out at the city. When he spoke, he did not turn around."I didn't come to Port Haven to buy a boatyard," he said.Wren said nothing."I came for you."---"The night you left the Vance house," Julian said, "I knew within six hours. I have people who watch that family. People who tell me when a car leaves at a strange time. When a maid gets fired. When a wife disappears."He turned his head a litt
I Transmigrated Into a Novel And Divorced The Billionaire *CHAPTER 37: LEMON OR HONEY**
*Wren did not breathe.She sat on the edge of the bed with the phone pressed against her ear. Her whole body had gone still, like a deer in the road when the headlights hit it.*Celeste?*Just one word. Her name. Not even her real name. And yet it went through her like a cold wind through an open door.She did not answer.On the other end of the line, she could hear the rain. The clock ticking on Dr. Lin's mantel. And breathing. Slow. Uneven. Like a man who was trying very hard to stay calm and could not quite do it."I know you're there," Adrian said quietly. "I can hear you."Wren closed her eyes.Across the room, Julian had not moved. He stood by the window with his phone still in his hand. He was watching her face. Waiting."You don't have to say anything," Adrian said. "Please don't hang up. Just... let me talk. Just for a minute. Then you can go. I promise."Wren's hand was shaking. She pressed her other hand over it to make it stop.She did not hang up.---"I'm at Dr. Lin's h
I Transmigrated Into a Novel And Divorced The Billionaire **CHAPTER 36: THE MAN IN THE DARK**
"Julian! What did it say?"He was already at the door. His hand was on the first lock. He stopped and turned back, and she saw his face in the lamplight. It was white."*Driver getting out,*" he read. "*Big man. Walking toward the house. Not the front door. The side.*"Wren's heart stopped."I'm coming with you.""No.""Julian...""No." He crossed the room in three steps and took her by the shoulders. Not hard. But firm. "Listen to me. It's two hours to Dr. Lin's house. Even if I drive like a madman, I'll be too late for whatever is happening right now. You're eleven weeks pregnant. Four days ago you were bleeding in a hospital bed. You are not getting in a car and driving through a storm toward a man in the dark."Wren stared at him.*Eleven weeks.* He knew exactly how many weeks. He had read Dr. Lin's file? No. He had *guessed*. Or he had counted, from the first day in Sam's office, when he looked at her hand and said nothing.She had thought her secret was safe from him.It never h
I Transmigrated Into a Novel And Divorced The Billionaire **CHAPTER 35: NO LIGHTS**
"Dr. Lin? Dr. Lin!"Nothing. Only silence. Then three short beeps, and the screen went back to the home page.Wren stared at the phone in her hand.Then she pressed the number again. It rang. And rang. And rang. Nobody answered. No voice. No message. Just ringing, on and on, in an empty house.She tried again. And again.On the fifth try, the phone did not even ring. It went straight to a flat, cold recording. *The number you have called is not available.*Wren put the phone down on the desk very carefully, like it might break.Her hands were shaking. Her heart was pounding.*Eleanor.**We need to talk about the Hale girl's file.*Eleanor was standing at Dr. Lin's door. Right now. Tonight. Two hundred miles away, while Wren sat here in a little apartment, helpless.And Dr. Lin had been one word away. One single word.*Your father said...*Wren pressed her hands over her face."Say it," she whispered into her palms. "Please. Just say it."But there was no one to hear her.---She calle
I Transmigrated Into a Novel And Divorced The Billionaire *CHAPTER 34: THE DOCTOR'S CALL**
Wren could not speak.She stood by the window with the phone pressed against her ear. Her other hand was holding the edge of the desk so tightly that her fingers hurt.*Dr. Lin.*The man who had knelt beside Henry Hale in the mud and the rain. The man who had told Julian to run away and never tell anyone. The man who had kept quiet for six long years.And now he was on a phone that nobody was supposed to know about."Mrs. Vance?" His voice was soft and shaky. "Are you there?""How did you get this number?" Wren whispered.There was a pause."Mr. Thorne gave it to me," Dr. Lin said. "Last night."Wren's heart dropped.*Julian.*"He came to my house," Dr. Lin went on. "Very late. I opened the door, and he was standing on my steps in the rain. I knew his face at once. I have seen it in my dreams for six years." The old man's voice cracked. "He said, *You told me to run once, Doctor. I ran. I'm not running anymore. And neither are you.*"Wren closed her eyes.He had gone behind her back.
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